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A Reading of Propertius' Elegies by Lee Fratantuono 9781666972412
Booksplease Price: $152.92Among the surviving poets of the Age of Augustus, the elegist Propertius is an enigma. Now brooding, now buoyant, Propertius' couplets offer mesmerizing commentary on the history of Rome and the... -
A Companion to the Aeneid in Translation: Volume 3: Books 7-12 by Christopher Tanfield 9781350499546
Booksplease Price: $39.06With this three-volume companion, students can access the literary and historical significance of the Aeneid in English through an accessible yet authoritative introduction and line-by-line... -
The Environmental Poetry of Augustan Rome by Erik Pugh Fredericksen 9781009476171
Booksplease Price: $121.77This book reveals central texts of Augustan poetry-Vergil's Eclogues and Georgics, and Horace's Odes-to be environmental poetry. In contrast to readings that assume forms of nature poetry are mere... -
Shakespeare’s Compassion: Emotion and the Classics on the Early Modern Stage by Dr Anne Sophie Refskou 9781350497580
Booksplease Price: $108.18This book shows that Shakespeare's dramatization of compassion, far from expressing a sense of universal empathy, stages a conflicted emotion available to be solicited, manipulated and at times even... -
Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity by Joseph Farrell 9780691221250
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $33.78A major new interpretation of Vergil's epic poem as a struggle between two incompatible versions of the Homeric heroThis compelling book offers an entirely new way of understanding the Aeneid. Many... -
Aeneid 3 by Virgil 9781585102273
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585102273Author VergilFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint -
Greece, Rome, and the Bill of Rights Volume 15 by Susan Ford Wiltshire 9780806193229
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.07Susan Ford Wiltshire traces the evolution of the doctrine of individual rights from antiquity through the eighteenth century. The common thread through that long story is the theory of natural law... -
Virgil: Eclogues by Virgil
RRP: $37.52Booksplease Price: $35.64Pastoral poetry was probably the creation of the Hellenistic poet Theocritus, and he was certainly its most distinguished exponent in Greek. Vergil not only transposed the spirit of Greek pastoral... -
Aeneid 2 by Virgil 9781585102266
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585102266Author VergilFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint -
Staging England in the Elizabethan History Play: Performing National Identity by Ralf Hertel 9781032923529
RRP: $56.27Booksplease Price: $53.18Applying current political theory on nationhood as well as methods established by recent performance studies, this study sheds new light on the role the public theatre played in the rise of English... -
The Aeneid by Barry B. Powell
Booksplease Price: $55.82Barry Powell, acclaimed translator of the Iliad (OUP, 2013) and the Odyssey (OUP, 2014) now delivers a graceful, lucid, free-verse translation of the Aeneid in a pleasant modern idiom. On-page notes... -
Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar by J.H. Allen 9780486448060
RRP: $39.52Booksplease Price: $27.40A venerable resource for more than a century, this is still regarded by students and teachers as the finest Latin grammar reference available. Concise, comprehensive, and well organized, it is... -
Christians Reading Classics: An Introduction to Greco-Roman Classics from Homer to Boethius Nadya Williams 9780310171072
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.77Can Christians today read the great classics of Greco-Roman pagan literature for spiritual formation and growth in the virtues?Classical scholar Nadya Williams responds with an unequivocal "Yes!"... -
In Search of Florentine Civic Humanism, Volume 2: Essays on the Transition from Medieval to Modern Thought by Hans Baron 9780691610573
RRP: $50.92Booksplease Price: $43.98Hans Baron's Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance is widely considered one of the most important works in Italian REnaissance studies. Princeton University Press published this seminal book in... -
Ovid by Katharina Volk 9781405136426
RRP: $42.81Booksplease Price: $39.57This book provides a unique and accessible introduction to the complete works of Ovid. Using a thematic approach, Volk lays out what we know about Ovid's life, presents the author's works within... -
The Aeneid: A New Translation by Shadi Bartsch
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.58'Gripping ... A remarkable achievement' TLS On his deathbed in 19 BCE, Vergil asked that his epic, the Aeneid, be burned. If his wishes had been obeyed, western literature - maybe even western... -
On the Nature of Things by Lucretius 9780393341362
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.48This great poem stands with Virgil's Aeneid as one of the vital and enduring achievements of Latin literature. Lost for more than a thousand years, its return to circulation in 1417 reintroduced... -
The Face of Nature: Wit, Narrative, and Cosmic Origins in Ovid's Metamorphoses by Garth Tissol 9780691600390
RRP: $50.92Booksplease Price: $43.98In these reflections on the mercurial qualities of style in Ovid's Meta-morphoses, Garth Tissol contends that stylistic features of the ever-shifting narrative surface, such as wordplay, narrative... -
Classical Mythology by Mark Morford 9780197653920
Booksplease Price: $140.98Building on the best-selling tradition of previous editions, Classical Mythology, Twelfth Edition, is the most comprehensive survey of classical mythology available--and the first full-color textbook... -
A Grammar of Classical Latin: For Use in Schools and Colleges by Arthur Sloman 9781316619926
Booksplease Price: $46.20Originally published in 1906, this textbook's principal aim is to give 'the facts of the language as they appear in the accepted models of Classical Latin'. Predominantly written for school students,... -
75 Classical Myths Condensed from Their Primary Sources by David Mulroy 9781609270346
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $13.23When you ask students what they take away from classical mythology courses, their answers are often the same: the stories. Interpretations of the subject matter come and go, but the stories tend to... -
Golden Cynthia: Essays on Propertius by Sharon L. James 9780472133246
Booksplease Price: $79.40The elegiac poet Propertius responds in his verse to the complex changes that Rome underwent in his lifetime, taking on numerous topics of poetry, poetic and sexual rivalry, visual art, violence,... -
The Chaonian Dove: Studies in the Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid of Virgil by A.J. Boyle 9789004076723
Booksplease Price: $150.79This is the first book-length critical study of the three Virgilian works to be published in English for twenty years. It examines in detail the thematic design and intent of the Eclogues, Georgics... -
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Reading Virgil's "Aeneid": An Interpretive Guide by C.G. Perkell 9780806131399
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $25.55Vergil's Aeneid has been considered a classic, if not the classic, of Western literature for two thousand years. In recent decades this famous poem has become the subject of fresh and searching... -
The Aeneid of Virgil by Edward McCrorie 9780472065950
RRP: $22.71Booksplease Price: $22.23Called "the best poem by the best poet," Virgil's Aeneid is perhaps the most famous work in Latin literature. It tells the story of Rome's founding by the Trojan prince Aeneas after many years of... -
The Bow and the Lyre: The Poem, The Poetic Revelation, Poetry and History by Octavio Paz 9780292707641
RRP: $29.47Booksplease Price: $25.17In The Bow and the Lyre Octavio Paz, one of the most important poets writing in Spanish, presents his sustained reflections on the poetic phenomenon and on the place of poetry in history and in our... -
Latin Pastoral Poetry by Andrea Navagero 9780674298378
RRP: $40.13Booksplease Price: $34.71A definitive edition of Renaissance pastoral poems by two master poets, including works that inspired Raphael and Shakespeare.Andrea Navagero (1483-1529) was among the principal poets of the Venetian... -
Blood Music by Greg Bear
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75In the tradition of the greatest cyberpunk novels, Blood Music explores the imminent destruction of mankind and the fear of mass destruction by technological advancements. Blood Music follows... -
Afterlives of the Roman Poets: Biofiction and the Reception of Latin Poetry by Nora Goldschmidt 9781316632086
Booksplease Price: $40.94Conscious of ancient modes of reading poetry 'for the life', Roman poets encoded versions of their lives into their texts. The result is a body of literature that cries out to be read in terms of... -
Beowulf and Grettis saga: From England to Iceland, 1016–1219 by Professor Richard North 9781843847632
Booksplease Price: $143.29Investigates the relationship between two texts separated by hundreds of years and nearly two thousand miles. In the saga, Grettir fights a giant who wields a hepti-sax; in the poem, Beowulf... -
Horace: Odes Book II by Horace 9781107600904
Booksplease Price: $36.98Horace's Odes remain among the most widely read works of classical literature. This volume constitutes the first substantial commentary for a generation on this book, and presents Horace's poems for... -
Classical Myth: An Introduction by Barry B. Powell 9780472039722
RRP: $42.81Booksplease Price: $40.56Myths are not just the stories from the ancient Greeks and Romans-they represent deep truths from the essential concerns people face in their lives. Readers may already have heard of the Trojan Horse... -
Perpetua: The Woman, the Martyr by Sarah Ruden 9780300273717
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $24.90An intimate and human portrait of Perpetua, a third-century woman author who was idealized as a Christian martyr On March 7, 203, in the monumental amphitheater at Carthage, Vibia Perpetua was one... -
Blood Music by Greg Bear 9781497637023
RRP: $26.73Booksplease Price: $21.37Nebula Award Finalist: A genetic engineering breakthrough may portend the destruction of humanity in this cyberpunk novel by the author of The Forge of God. This Hugo and Nebula Award finalist... -
Homer and the Good Ruler in Antiquity and Beyond by Jacqueline Klooster 9789004365810
RRP: $183.58Booksplease Price: $157.57Homer and the Good Ruler in Antiquity and Beyond focuses on the important question of how and why later authors employ Homeric poetry to reflect on various types and aspects of leadership. In a range... -
Poems by Sextus Propertius 9781784106515
Booksplease Price: $20.03The Poetry Book Society Autumn 2018 Recommended Translation. Asked to name the great Latin love poets, today's reader is likely to offer Catullus, Ovid, Virgil, Horace. Propertius, a successor of... -
The Eyesore of Aigina: Anti-Athenian Attitudes Across the Greek, Hellenistic and Roman Worlds by Katerina Meidani 9781905125593
RRP: $93.80Booksplease Price: $90.77Our ideas about ancient Athens are constructed very largely from the writings of Athenian authors. Relatively rare are our sources for how others - whether Greeks, Asiatics or Romans - saw Athens... -
Humanist Educational Treatises by Craig Kallendorf 9780674007598
Booksplease Price: $43.62The cycle of disciplines now known as the humanities emerged in their modern form during the Italian Renaissance as the result of an educational movement begun by humanist teachers, writers, and... -
Latin Redux Volume 65: A Second-Year Grammar Review by Susan O. Shapiro 9780806193915
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $26.96For many Latin students, the second year of study marks an exciting turning point. Having learned the basics of grammar and vocabulary, they are finally ready to encounter "real" Latin authors,... -
Hindsight in Greek and Roman History by Anton Powell 9781905125586
RRP: $87.10Booksplease Price: $84.93One of the most fertile and fast-developing themes of recent historiography is treated by the 10 new papers in this volume. The history of the ancient world has traditionally been studied with a view...